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Nine smokin’ new teaser posters for Watchmen released

I don’t list many posters in the blog area of the site. I love great ad design, but I figure if people really want to see movie posters, they’ll check out the poster section. But once in a great while, posters are released that stand out in the crowd to me, and so I must ….

MTV now casting for I’m A Fan Boy – show to be taped at New York Comic Con

New York Comic Con is working closely with MTV to help them cast a fanboy segment for the network’s award-winning True Life documentary series. All interested fanboys are encouraged to apply immediately. All applications will be reviewed by the talent and production staff at MTV’s True Life. Are you obsessed with comic books, anime, fantasy, ….

The Next Generation of actors, directors and writers selected for 2008

Yesterday, The Hollywood Reporter announced its picks for its 15th annual Next Generation special issue, which profiles the thirty-five brightest and fastest-rising executives age 35 and under in the entertainment industry. The special issue, which is now on newsstands, highlights those who have distinguished themselves in the areas of film, television, representation, legal and new ….

Foxes mid-season schedule jumbles Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, but we still have a trailer

The Hollywood Reporter just broke news about Fox TV’s mid-season schedule. I won’t go through every special event, game show and other non-essentials, but here’s some info on the action dramas that genre fans want to see, but now need to stay home on Friday’s to watch: Joss Whedon’s action drama Dollhouse will air on ….

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans trailer

Don’t know how I missed this one. The trailer for Underworld: Rise of the Lycans was released last week. It looks ok, but I’m curious where Patrick Tatopoulos will take the franchise. Tatopoulos is more known for effects and concept work on films like Godzilla, I Robot and The Cave. He was also creature designer ….

Trailer for Dragonball film

Dragonball is based on the extremely popular manga and anime series about a young boy named Goku who seeks out, upon his grandfather’s dying request, to find the great Master Roshi and gather all seven Dragon Balls (of which he has one) in order to prevent Piccolo from succeeding in his desire to use the ….

James Cameron’s Avatar to be released in IMAX 3D opening day

IMAX and Twentieth Century Fox announced this morning that they have reached agreement to release the highly anticipated 3D motion picture Avatar in IMAX 3D simultaneously with the motion picture’s premiere in conventional 3D theatres on December 18, 2009. Avatar is directed and written by Oscar Winner James Cameron and stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, ….

Writer gets Trapped in crime thriller

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Matthew Aldrich is in talks to pen the thriller The Trap, which Ericson Core (Invincible) might direct for Alcon. The movie is a remake of a 2007 Serbian film titled Klopka, about a regular guy who agrees to commit a contract killing in order to fund his son’s life-saving surgery. ….

Straczynski writing Forbidden Planet and Pulitzer-winner writing Spider-Man 4

Hollywood is getting serious about grooming its adaptations and remakes right from the start, by hiring the best writers in the industry. According to The Hollywood Reporter, J. Michael Straczynski, who penned the Clint Eastwood film Changeling, has been tapped to write the long-in-development remake of cult sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet for Warner Bros. Warners ….

Sam Mendes to direct Preacher adaptation

According to Variety, Sam Mendes will helm the film adaptation of the supernatural graphic novel series Preacher for Columbia. Originally created by Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, the story focuses on the preacher from a Texas town struggling to get by, who is driven only by a strong moral sense. When his city is ….

Gary Oldman to join sci-fi thriller Book of Eli

Gary Oldman is in talks to star with Denzel Washington in The Book of Eli, the action thriller from Warner Bros. and Alcon. Albert and Allen Hughes are directing. This according to a story by The Hollywood Reporter. The script has been developed by Gary Whitta and Anthony Peckham, and centers on a lone hero ….

New trailer for sci-fi thriller Push online

Push is a sci-fi thriller that involves a group of young American ex-patriots with telekinetic and clairvoyant abilities, that are in hiding from a clandestine U.S. government agency bent on turning them into weapons. They band together and utilize their various abilities for a final job, that will allow them to escape the clutches of ….

Even more new pics from J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek

Entertainment Weekly nabbed even more photos from the J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Trek movie last night and posted them on their website. The new Star Trek will kick off next summer’s blockbuster season on May 8, 2009, and explores the early Starfleet careers of future Enterprise officers, and presents a new vision of Star Trek, featuring ….

Road Warrior director and Brad Pitt team up for Odyssey

Brad Pitt turned Homer’s epic poem The Iliad into the 2004 film Troy. Now Warner Bros. is hoping to team Pitt up with George Miller to adapt the Greek poet’s other masterwork, The Odyssey. Their intention is to transfer the tale to a futuristic setting in outer space, if you can believe that. Both Homer poems ….

New details on J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Trek film

Tomorrow’s issue of Entertainment Weekly features a cover portrait of Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine from the new Star Trek movie, and contains a selection of newly released photos from the film, some of which have been getting some play on the web already, making “Trekkies” and sci-fi fans like myself, even more excited about ….